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Bottlerocket's changelog through the storm of Linux CVEs these last year has been bad as well: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... Roughly one release every 15-20 days.

comment by captn3m0 · 2026-10-21 · in PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

…any idea when Bottlerocket will acknowledge CVE? Seems like a critical for kubernetes nodes...... https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/security/adv...

comment by mikeweiss · 2026-04-30 · in Copy Fail

…best of my knowledge will work on non-AWS infra it just needs to be provided creds). Bottlerocket < https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#setup > comes batteries included with both of those things, and is cheaply provisioned with…

comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-23 · in Fearless SSH: Short-lived certificates bring Zero Trust to infrastructure

Absolutely looking forward to that possibility: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/3348

comment by stensonb · 2024-06-11 · in Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud

Don't overlook Bottlerocket, which despite coming out of AWS is not (AFAIK) AWS-centric: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme It's also super handy for writing out static Pod manifests to have replace the brain-damaging…

comment by mdaniel · 2024-05-13 · in Flatcar: OS Innovation with Systemd-Sysext

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story by enz · 2023-11-12 · 1 comment

…via the User Data field when launching it as an AMI. All the information appears to be in the docs https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

comment by rezonant · 2023-09-24 · in Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

…AWS reps and they have no interest in adding this. Here is the open 2+ year thread on this: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/1667

comment by jacurtis · 2023-09-23 · in Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

It means there is a full trusted boot chain from the TPM to loading the immutable root filesystem: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... Regular Linux distributions don't have this, even if Secure Boot is enabled:…

comment by akyuu · 2023-09-23 · in Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

…obscured. Even the GitHub page is listed only on the main page. I found the VMware instructions at https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

comment by evrimoztamur · 2023-09-23 · in Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

On the GitHub repo ( https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket ), there are instructions for using it on VMware and bare metal: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottler…

comment by akyuu · 2023-09-23 · in Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot

…at boot, and host-container (or DaemonSet, if you run K8S) is used for long-running services. [1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

comment by tommiegannert · 2023-09-18 · in Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems

To add to the other excellent answers, I would recommend adding Bottlerocket to your reading list: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#readme I'm also aware of (but haven't used) https://github.com/siderolabs/talos#readme I…

comment by mdaniel · 2023-06-27 · in Wolfi: A community Linux OS designed for the container and cloud-native era

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story by jhugo · 2022-08-20 · 1 comment

…offering. I am eagerly looking forward to any and all presentations they do on their work. [^1]: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket [^2]: https://fly.io/docs/reference/architecture/

comment by johnbellone · 2022-08-02 · in Using Firecracker and Go to run short, untrusted code execution jobs (2021)

…incorporating the use of a feature I had previously dismissed as useless (MCS) is really quite neat https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/discussions/...

comment by iou · 2021-11-25 · in Amazon Linux 2022

There's also Bottlerocket, https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket I haven't used any of them, but maybe B.r. works with podman?

comment by cutemonster · 2021-09-05 · in Migrating from Docker to Podman

…which is Amazon's optimized OS for running containers, compared to Clear Linux. [0] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

comment by watermelon0 · 2021-08-17 · in EC2 Boot Time Benchmarking

As you can see here https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop... , Bottlerocket uses glibc.

comment by sanxiyn · 2020-09-02 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…than a simple rollout strategy in kubernetes since a reboot of the node seems inevitable. [1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop...

comment by creztoe · 2020-09-02 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

A little confused, you say you don't want to disrupt the containers, but https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#updates seems to indicate you still have to reboot for the update to take hold?

comment by Bedon292 · 2020-09-02 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…on our github[1][2] that are similar that you're welcome to watch or contribute use cases to. [1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/841 [2] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/issues/1097

comment by jhaynes · 2020-09-02 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…also see a bit more of this debugging/exploration tooling explained in an AWS Partner Blog[2]. [1] https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket#admin-contai... [2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/getting-started-with-bottle...

comment by jhaynes · 2020-09-01 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…I'd also recommend reading the ECS quickstart in the Bottlerocket repo: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

comment by NathanKP · 2020-09-01 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…first design of Bottlerocket. You can read more about the security features of Bottlerocket here: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... And you can find a bit more of the charter / goals for the project here:…

comment by NathanKP · 2020-09-01 · in Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

…I suspect the path we'll actually see pursued is more along the lines of Bottlerocket ( https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket ), which is basically the Linux kernel plus a containerd API that works with Kubernetes but doesn't…

comment by skywhopper · 2020-03-19 · in Containers Are Not the Future

…spin up one of the AMIs we've already built. You can find current AMIs via public SSM parameters: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

comment by jhaynes · 2020-03-11 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

…Kubernetes variant does not use the docker packages for its build. See more about variants here: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop...

comment by mmzdnp · 2020-03-11 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

What is the docker-engine package for then? https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop...

comment by justincormack · 2020-03-11 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

…already available for you to chose from. Compared to them the list here looks almost laughable https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop... and https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/tree/master/pkg The problem though is…

comment by rhatr · 2020-03-11 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

Their take on using cargo for packaging is quite interesting: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/tree/develop...

comment by jontro · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

Looks like it is free software. Dual MIT/Apache license. https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

comment by eikenberry · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

A link to the actual source code (90% Rust) and README: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket And here is a post from AWS with more technical details: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/bottlerocket-open-source-os...

comment by whalesalad · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

Glad you're enjoying them! We have a glossary just in case: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... (my personal favorite is Laika, the first dog in space and our pre-init binary)

comment by jhaynes · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

I’m here for the puns like updog: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop...

comment by ranman · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting containers

Project is up on GitHub along with its supporting components: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket

comment by jahkeup · 2020-03-10 · in Bottlerocket OS

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